[verify_sirrah]

Masoton doesn't encode useful information in the URL like the author described in the first section.

[progval]

It's an implementation detail. You probably just need to change the code of file to change the format of Mastodon's URLs: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/blob/master/app/lib/ac... and this line: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/blob/master/config/rou...